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Her Indoors | Report | 31 Dec 2006 12:26 |
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that certificates don't have an important place in us researching our recent past, but they are not the only (or the only infallible) tool of research. If they didn't offer us information that might not exist elsewhere, we wouldn't bother. I aim to have certificates for all my direct ancestors, but prefer parish records for post-1837 church marriages, because they are the original record (of which the certificate is but a copy), and they are free. But I can't be doing with the school of thought that says unless you have every possible certificate, then your tree is a work of fantasy, and intrinsically worthless: that is just silly. |
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